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• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
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• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
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Definitions

• the invention relates to application of designs to textiles or fabric, for example a garment such as a sports shirt.
• applique means a decorative patch or badge, which is applied to a fabric to impart a decorative design such as a logo on the fabric such as a garment.
• the invention is directed towards providing an applique having a "3D" effect, with minimum impact on manufacturing complexity.
• an applique for applying a design to a fabric comprising: at least one ink layer printed on a substrate; and an application adhesive suitable for adhering the applique to a fabric, wherein the applique is adapted to provide a three-dimensional visual effect.
• At least one ink layer incorporates an additive to provide a three- dimensional visual effect in combination with other parts of the applique.
• the additive comprises reflective particles.
• the reflective particles are coated in titanium dioxide or iron oxide.
• the additive comprises an agent which expands, such as with application of heat.
• the agent is a blowing agent.
• a layer includes an additive such as reflective particles or blowing agent and at least one other layer does not include an additive.
• the substrate is non-planar.
• the applique further comprises an insert of a material such as fabric or foil to provide a surface profile.
• the insert bridges stacks of layers including the ink and the substrate.
• the stacks include an upper disposable carrier, a release adhesive layer, an ink layer, and an opaque backer layer which is bonded to a lacquer layer.
• the insert is secured to the stack on each side by adhesive in a manner whereby it is free-floating within the applique.
• an ink is printed alongside a flock on a substrate in a desired pattern.
• the surfaces of the ink and of the flock are at different levels.
• the flock fibres are reinforced with a permanent thermosetting adhesive layer.
• the applique comprises an upper disposable carrier and a release adhesive layer.
• the carrier is of polyester material.
• the ink is between a release adhesive layer and a backer layer.
• At least one ink is a polyurethane ink.
• the backer layer is positioned between an ink layer and a lacquer layer.
• the backer layer comprises a polyurethane-based ink In one embodiment, the backer layer comprises a single polyurethane ink layer or multiple polyurethane ink layers.
• a lacquer layer is positioned between a backer layer and an adhesive layer.
• the lacquer layer allows the applique to stretch when the applique is applied to a fabric.
• the applique comprises an adhesive layer comprising a hotmelt powder.
• the applique comprises an adhesive layer comprising an activated permanent thermosetting compound.
• the applique comprises an adhesive layer comprising a migration- resistant blocking agent.
• the invention provides a garment or piece of fabric comprising any applique as defined above adhered thereto.
• the invention provides a method of decorating a fabric comprising the steps of applying any applique as defined above to the fabric.
• the invention provides a method of manufacturing any applique as defined above comprising the steps of depositing the ink on the substrate in a manner to provide a three-dimensional effect.
• the method comprises the step of blending the ink with an additive to achieve a desired visual effect.
• the additive includes reflective particles.
• the additive includes a blowing agent or any other agent which expands to increase height of the ink.
• the method comprises the step of overlapping ink layers in a pattern " chosen according to a desired three-dimensional visual effect.
• the method comprises the step of depositing an ink to a greater depth than another ink on the substrate.
• the inks are deposited with different screen-printing stencils.
• the inks have different viscosities.
• an insert is retained within the applique.
• the insert bridges stacks of layers on either side in a manner whereby the insert has the effect of floating.
• At least some of the ink is deposited alongside flock in a desired pattern on the substrate.
• Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an applique of the invention for application of a design to a garment
• Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the applique after application onto textile fabric (F)
• Fig. 3 is a plan view of the applique
• Figs 4 and 5 are cross-sectional views of an applique before and after application to a fabric, the applique having a PU ink incorporating a blowing agent to give a 3D effect;
• Figs 6 and 7 are cross-sectional views of an applique before and after application to a fabric, the applique having PU ink raised in a screen-printed pattern to provide a 3D effect;
• Figs 8 and 9 are cross-sectional views of an applique before and after application to a fabric, the applique having a 3D textile insert;
• Figs 10 and 11 are cross-sectional views of an applique before and after application to a fabric, the applique having flock alongside PU ink on a single substrate to provide a 3D effect.
• the invention provides an applique which gives a 3D visual effect. This is achieved by way [0 of ink layering techniques and/or incorporation of additives such as reflective particles in an ink and/or non-planar configuration of a substrate and/or incorporation of a textile insert to provide physically different depths, and/or deposition of ink and flock of different or similar depths alongside each other in a pattern.
• an applique 9 of the invention comprises a disposable carrier film 7 onto which a release layer 6 and PU inks 5 and 4 are printed using layering techniques.
• the ink layers 4 and 5 can be multicoloured and each colour is applied sequentially using a conventional screen-printing method.
• a back-up 3, a lacquer layer 2, and an adhesive layer 1 are printed in sequence over the ink layers. 0
• the ink 4 includes additives, in this embodiment, reflective particles. These aspects provide the optical effect of a 3 -dimensional applique.
• the artwork is created by overlapping design layers to controlled specification sequences.
• the ink 4, being blended with light reflecting particles, has a bright, sparkly shimmer, with a degree of light scattering behaviour.
• the light scattering ability of the additive is dependent directly on the concentration of additive blended into the ink. Blends with higher amounts of the additive will scatter more light than those with lower amounts of additive. Polyurethane ink has a low light scattering ability. Therefore the ink 5 has a matt appearance and contrast 5 between the matt ink 5 and the reflective ink 4 intensifies the optical 3-dimensional effect.
• the adhesive 1 comprises an adhesive system made from adhesive combined with hotmelt adhesive powder.
• the adhesive can include one or more of (but not limited to) acrylic; epoxide; polyamide; polyester; polyolefin; polyurethane; and polyurethane ester adhesives.
• the adhesive TO485 polyurethane adhesive can be used.
• the applique 9 is simply placed on the textile with the disposable carrier face up 7, with the adhesive layer 1 in contact with the textile. Heat and pressure are applied so the adhesive 1 impregnates into the fabric (F) to seal the applique in place.
• the invention has the major advantage of optically creating a 3 -dimensional effect even there is minimal impact on the manufacturing process. Also, the applique is very simple to apply with heat and pressure, in a conventional manner.
• an applique 10 has a physical 3- dimensional effect by printing PU inks 15 alongside inks 14 blended with additives which give varying heights to applique (best illustrated in Fig. 5).
• the additives in the ink 14 are chemically formulated blowing agents, and control of composition proportions allows excellent control of the ink thickness.
• the blowing agents are activated with heat upon application to expand from the depth shown in Fig. 4 to that shown in Fig. 5.
• an applique 20 provides a physical 3- dimensional effect by printing inks 24 and 25 of varying thicknesses onto a disposable carrier 27.
• the invention has the major advantage of incorporating different depth of deposit, which is visually noticeable.
• the raised ink 24 is raised because of the use of thick stencil screen technology and PU ink of a higher viscosity to achieve the greater height.
• the applique is easy to apply to fabric (F) using heat and pressure in a conventional manner. The surface of the applique can be textured.
• the applique 20 has a backer layer 23, a lacquer layer 22, and an adhesive dispersion 21.
• an applique 30 provides a physical 3- dimensional effect by including in an applique a laser or die-cut motif, textile insert 34 between stacks of PU ink 35, backer 33, lacquer 32, and adhesive dispersion 31.
• the insert is applied so that the applique can be heat-applied in an easy one-step operation.
• the insert may alternatively be of foil, flock, natural or synthetic materials including textiles, film or hologram for example.
• the physical configuration is achieved by leaving an open area for the insert to show through. The insert is cut smaller than the total design area so that some adhesive remains outside the insert area for application.
• the adhesive 21 is a hot-melt adhesive comprises a thermoplastic film made from aromatic or aliphatic thermoplastic.
• the hot-melt film can include one or more of, (but not limited to) polyamide; polyester; polyolefin; polyurethane; and polyurethane ester.
• the hot- melt film can be 76 ⁇ m Bemis Polyester Hotmelt Film 5214.
• an applique 40 in another embodiment, a physical 3- dimensional effect is achieved by printing multiple colours of flat PU inks 45 and multiple flocks 44 onto the same disposable carrier 47.
• the PU inks 45 and backer, lacquer, and adhesive layers 43, 42 and 41 are printed onto the disposable carrier 47 in the areas where PU ink is desired. Areas of the design where flock 44 is required are left void on the carrier during PU ink printing. These areas are then electrostatically flocked in the desired pattern and the flock adhesive 48 is printed last.
• the applique 40 is easy to apply to fabric (F) using heat and pressure.
• the surface of the applique has a visible height difference between the flat PU ink 45 and the raised flock fibres 44.
• This embodiment has the major advantage of creating a combination print where richly textured pile gives a plush hand feel alongside the smooth flat surface of polyurethane inks.
• the invention makes use of combining polymer applique technology with flock printing techniques. This combines, for example, the use of lightweight, sports-performance polyurethane applique materials with flock printing technology directly onto the carrier to create a polyurethane-flock combined applique.
• the flock can be any electro statically chargeable fibre, such as fibres made from rayon, nylon, cotton, acrylic and polyester.
• the Polyurethane adhesives 1, 11, 21, 31, and 41 referred to above are all of the cross-linking solvent-based polyurethane emulsion type or water-based polyurethane emulsion type, the particular cross-linking for each adhesive being chosen to suit the substrate. While alternatives are possible such as an acrylic-based adhesive for the release adhesive 46 (on disposable Polyester film 47), it is believed that polyurethane emulsions are more effective.
• the flock adhesive 48 referred to above is of the cross-linking water-based acrylic emulsion type, the particular cross-linking for each adhesive being chosen to suit the substrate. Alternatives are possible such as a polyurethane-based adhesive.
• the combination of a PU applique with other materials creates a physical 3 -dimensional effect.
• the ink incorporates blended mass-reducing particles, and/or fluorescent particles, and/or phosphorescent particles, and/or ultra violet particles or inks, and/or thermochromic particles, and/or photochromic particles, and/or electorchromic particles, and/or 'mirror' particles, and/or porous particles, and/or metallic particles, and/or solar charged particles, and/or kinetic charged particles, and/or magnetic particles, and/or chemical agents which undergo changes to structure and thickness at defined temperatures
• Inks of different thicknesses are printed on the same carrier to achieve different heights.
• the ink has added colour pigment and/or dyes.
• the ink may be fully transparent, or translucent, or opaque.
• the ink may be ultra violet activated, have elastic stretch and recovery characteristics, be compression resistant, be malleable, and/or have compression and recovery characteristics. It may incorporate fabric material, which may be sublimated with a pre-printed pattern, or maybe in its natural state.
• the fabric material may be pre-dyed and or coated.
• Dyed fabric can include but not exclusively standard textile dyes but this can also include metallic coatings, fluorescent coatings/dyes, heathers and other surface treatment.
• An insert may be included and this may be a fabric which is a woven fibre including, plain, twill, crow's feet, basket or satin weave. These fabrics can be made of: Natural Fabrics: linen, silk, satin, denim, canvas, jute, velvet, cotton, wool, organza, brocades, felt, natural recycled fabrics, organic fabrics, hemp.
• Synthetic Fabrics polycotton, viscose, acetate, polyamide, organza, chiffon, sateen, lycra, spandex, lurex, taffeta, velour, polyester, acrylic, nylon, technical
• the insert may be a flocked applique, or a film which can be coated and uncoated, or a metallic foil or an organometallic foil which can be coated and uncoated.
• the insert may be a motif, may have a holographic pattern, insert includes audio or visual digital components, include RF Id Tags components.
• Flock fibres where included, can be pre dyed.
• the flock fibre can be any electro statically chargeable fibre, such as fibres made from rayon, cotton, nylon, acrylic and polyester.
• the flock fibres are of a high lustre type, and/or translucent, and/or of differing lengths, and/or of a pre-determined length, and/or contain an Ultra Violet coating
• Resin where used, could encapsulate delicate fabrics or other materials.
• An application adhesive may be a polyurethane resin, or a hotmelt, or an acrylic copolymer and a polyurethane resin.
• Polyurethane Ink 5 Product: Nylotex NX Series
• Polyurethane Inkl4 Product: Nylotex NX Series Chemical Description: Polyurethane ink dispersion
• Polyurethane Ink 15 Product: Nylotex NX Series Chemical Description: Polyurethane ink dispersion
• Polyurethane Ink 35 Product: Nylotex NX Series
• Polyurethane Ink 45 Product: Nylotex NX Series Chemical Description: Polyurethane ink dispersion
• Lacquer 2 Product: TO458
• Lacquer 42 Product: TO458 Chemical Description: Polyurethane adhesive dispersion Adhesive 1:
• Adhesive 11 Product: D 1365 & TO458
• Adhesive 31 Adhesive 31 :
• Adhesive Product Tubitrans Bond 3
• the invention is not limited to the embodiments described but may be varied in construction and detail.
• the applique could be applied to a fabric other than that of a garment.

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